Mohamed Said Atom

Mohamed Said Atom (1966-) was an al-Shabaab commander and arms smuggler during the Somali Civil War.

Biography
Mohamed Said Atom was born in 1966 in Galgala, Somalia. He became an arms smuggler for al-Shabaab and led a militia in the Puntland region in the north, declaring war on the regional government. Atom was said to have had a secret connection to the government of Somaliland, where he went into hiding from the rival factions during the Somali Civil War. On 7 June 2014, Atom agreed to defect from al-Shabaab to the government, and Puntland welcomed the news of his defection as a sign that al-Shabaab was being destroyed.